GeForce 9800M GT and GeForce GT 420 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 9800M GT
GeForce GT 420 OEM
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
NB9E-GT2
GF108
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
September 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
240 gflops
134.4 gflops
Gigaflops
360
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
48
Power consumption (TDP)
65 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
24.00
2.800
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
28.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A